One-to-one meaning

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Matching each member of one set with a member of another set.

There is a one-to-one relationship between days with large cash shortages and his workdays.

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Designating a correspondence such that each member of a set has just one partner in another set, and no element in either is without a partner.
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A personal relationship between two people.
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(chiefly UK) Involving direct communication between two people. Used especially to refer to situations in which one person is teaching one other person.
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(mathematics, of a function) Injective, being an injection: having the property that no two elements of the domain are mapped to the same image.
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The definition of one-to-one refers to a situation where every item has a pair.

When there is one teacher for every student, this is an example of a one-to-one ratio.

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Allowing the pairing of each member of a class uniquely with a member of another class.
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Relating to or being a correspondence between two sets that assigns to each member of one set exactly one member of the other set.
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Permitting the pairing of an element of one group with a corresponding element of another group.
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One-to-one Sentence Examples

  • We write;L 22 = a 1 a 2 .b 1 n-2 b2s 3 n - 3 3 n-3 3 n-3 3 a 3 = a 1 a 2 .b 1 b 2 .c 1 c2, and so on whenever we require to represent a product of real coefficients symbolically; we then have a one-to-one correspondence between the products of real coefficients and their symbolic forms. If we have a function of degree s in the coefficients, we may select any s sets of umbrae for use, and having made a selection we may when only one quantic is under consideration at any time permute the sets of umbrae in any manner without altering the real significance of the symbolism.

  • Afterwards it is put into another tub of soapy liquor, and boiled from one to one and a half hours.

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